The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
One of Western Mexico’s most popular lakes for bass fishing is coming under the microscope after local residents say it may be a source of contamination, provoking a surge in health problems for locals.
Conjunto Santander hosts the first edition of Medi Cannabis, a trade show and conference dedicated to the medical use of cannabis, Wednesday, March 11, and Thursday, March 12.
Representatives of Jalisco’s Culture Secretariat will address public concerns regarding the future of the Auditorio de la Ribera at an open meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 27, 5 p.m., at the auditorium, located on the highway in La Floresta.
If a proposal by Jalisco state legislator Claudia Murguía becomes law, this state will become the fourth in Mexico to allow parents to change the order of their offspring’s two surnames.
The Jalisco state government will not sign up to the new Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (Insabi) health care program, but has inked an agreement promising “coordination” with federal health authorities to guarantee the same rights: i.e. universal health care for all.
The entire municipal police force of the town of San Juan de los Lagos, numbering 160 in total, has been suspended and sent to Jalisco Police Academy for reevaluation.
Cancer drug shortage
Reports of a shortage of cancer medicines for children at Guadalajara’s public Hospital Civil are gaining ground. The director of the Nariz Roja charity told reporters Thursday that the hospital has run out of stocks of eight important medicines required by children undergoing chemotherapy: Imatinib, Vincristina, Vinblastina, Ifosfamida, Dacarbacina, Daunorrubicina, Bleomicina and Amifostina. The charity has managed to obtain the medicines thanks to donations.
Although the dreaded coronavirus has yet to leave its mark on Jalisco, this state has the dubious honor of having registered more deaths from “regular” influenza this season than any other Mexican entity.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has come out fighting after recent criticism of his government’s efforts to clean up the heavily polluted Santiago River, which begins its 562-kilometer-long journey in Lake Chapala and flows into the Pacific Ocean a few miles to the north of San Blas, Nayarit.
